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CHUONICLES 



Amherst College. 



THIRD SERIES. 



December, J 881. 



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Amherst College 



CHRONICLES 



CLASS OF 1866 



THIRD SERIES. 



Decembeb, 1881. 



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Baker & Godwin, Printers, 
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OFFICERS OF THE CLASS OF 1866. 



President, 
Vice-President, 
Secretary, . 
Historian, 



President, 
Vice-President, 
Secretary, . 
Historian, 



President, . 
Vice-President, 
Secretary, . 
Historian, 



President, , 
Vice-President, 
Secretary, . 
Historian, 

President, 
Secretary, 

President, 
Secretary, 

♦President, . 
♦Secretary, 



i862-'3. 
Freshman Year. 

. WILLIAM P. FISHER. 

. JOSEPH W. FAIRBANKS. 

. CHARLES H. PARKHURST. 

. ALFRED E. WHITAKER. 

i863-'4. 
Sophomore Year. 

JOSEPH W. FAIRBANKS. 

SAMUEL C. SMITH. 

SAMUEL I. CURTISS, Jr. 

CHARLES J. WOODBURY. 

i864-'5. 
Junior Year. 

ROYAL M. COLE. 

. H. HUMPHREY NEILL. 

. CHARLES H. CHANDLER. 

GEORGE HARRIS, Jr. 

i865-'6. 
Senior Year. 

VINCENT MOSES. 

WILLIAM BELCHER. 

SAMUEL C. SMITH. 

CHARLES R. PHIPPS. 



i866-'9. 



WINSLOW WOOD. 
GEORGE BRAYTON. 



1869-71. 

GEORGE HARRIS. 
HERBERT L. BRIDGMAN. 

i87i-'86. 

. ASA A. SPEAR. 
HERBERT L. BRIDGMAN. 



* Re-elected in 1876 and in 188 1. 



nPHIS book of ours is fortunate in several things, not in 
-*• the least that it needs no preface. In its frank and 
cordial pages we are brothers once more, each reciting in 
the presence of all, as in the old days at Amherst, not 
what we have learned — or more likely failed to learn — 
since yesterday from some difficult text-book, but the ac- 
tual, practical results and lessons of fifteen years of labor, 
failure, success; of life, love and death. How little of what 
we in college expected for ourselves and predicted for each 
other, has been realized, these narratives will abundantly 
prove ; not less do they demonstrate that every man of our 
class is doing faithfully and well his allotted work without 
repining or complaining. Every volume of the Chroni- 
cles makes more clear the fact that '66 was a better class 
than we fifteen years ago gave it credit for; that the errors 
and mistakes of our class politics have wholly disappeared, 
leaving no trace of bitterness; and that in no class, grad- 
uate or under-graduate, has the friendship of true manli- 
ness firmer hold and finer development than in the '66 of 
to-day. From the East to the West ; from Smith, 2d, 
under the rising sun 

"Where every prospect pleases and only man is vile," 

to Paine, in the sunset of the Pacific coast, all the letters 
are earnest, sincere and fraternal. Our wives and " olive 
branches," our dead, of the class and of our families, ad- 
monish us that we are boys no longer, that the duty of 
the hour is action, and forever fidelity to each other and 
every true man, 

" Till dawns the great Commencement Day on every shore 
and sea 
And expectantur all mankind to take their last degree." 

H. L. B. 



CHRONICLES 



ALLEN. 

[From the College Obituary Record, 1876.] 

Laban Wheaton Allen, the son of Rev. Cyrus W. and 
Mary F. Allen, and a brother of the late Rev. R. H. Allen of 
'62, was born in Pelham, N. H., Dec. 11, 1843. He fitted for 
college at Phillips Academy, Andover. His theological educa- 
tion was obtained at Andover Seminary, where he graduated in 
1869. October 13th of the same year, he was ordained and in- 
stalled pastor of the Congregational Church in South Braintree, 
Mass., from which charge he was dismissed May 14th, 1872, on 
account of the failure of his health. The following year he was 
a missionary of the American Home Missionary Society, at Gree- 
ley, Col.-, but his health still declining, he made a voyage to Eu- 
rope, and spent a year at Nice, France. Returning, he spent 
another year at Los Angeles, Cal. Journeying homeward again, 
he reached his father's house in Hanover, Mass., July i, 1875, 
and died there of pulmonary consumption, Aug. 23, 1875. 

Mr. Allen was greatly respected and beloved by his church 
in South Braintree and the people of Greeley, Col, to whom he 
preached, as an able minister and a high-minded Christian gen- 
tleman. He was never married. 

IN MEMORIAM. 

Laban Wheaton Allen was one of the most conscien- 
tious men I ever knew. He was as simple-hearted as a child, 
and in the ways of the world as unsophisticated. I never knew 
him to do a selfish act during my three years association with 
him at college. His mind was not of a quick or brilliant order; 
but he was endowed with the gift of plodding, and had an eager 
ambition, which made him an industrious student. What Allen 
once stored in his memory by laborious study was always ready 
for after use. He seldom forgot what he had once mastered. 

Laban Allen seemed eminently fitted for the ministry he chose 



8 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

as his life work ; for his conviction of the truths of Christianity 
. was profound, and he felt a burning- solicitude that all should 
realize their importance, as he did. He was not one of the som 
bre, sanctimonious kind of Christians ; but had a sunny nature, 
and did not believe that all the pleasures of this life had to be 
renounced in order to secure an entrance into the Kingdom of 
Heaven. Had he been spared to a long life of labor, he would 
have accomplished much good in the world. Yet I was not sur- 
prised to hear of his decline and death, for in college days his 
constitution was frail, and he had a strong predisposition to lung 
trouble. 

I knew very little of Allen's career after Commencement day, 
since we did not maintain a regular correspondence ; but from 
several sources I learn that he made an acceptable preacher, an 
excellent pastor, and always a man of unquestioned integrity. 
Pliny Bartlett (his chum in '66). 
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 12, '81. 

BAKER. 

Baker's late communications have been dated from Pittsfield, 
Mass., and from " private sources '' we learn that he is engaged 
in the furniture business in that charming and ambitious town. 



BALL. 
Ball now fills a Baptist pastorate in the City of Elms, New 
Haven, Conn., and merely writes "same old story with a few 
years added," which leads the secretaiy to cherish the earnest 
hope that Ball's parishioners may never complain of the length 
of his sermons. 



BARLOW. 
My Dear Classmates of '66: 

I have but little to add to the story of the last edition of the 
Chronicles of '66. The flight of time has intensified, rather than 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 9 

enlarged, my experience, save in a few particulars. One of these 
particulars is " a nice little boy," so his mother calls him, now 
three years old. He was born at Easton, Pa., October 14, 1878. 
His name is Harrington. In the summer of '''j'^ I left Lafayette 
College, intending to settle down in Boston " and grow up with 
the country," but fate was too strong for me, and so, after a so- 
journ of the better part of the year in Brooklyn, I suddenly found 
myself in charge of a girls' boarding school. Think of it ! 
This is another of the particulars I mentioned. Tilden Semi- 
nary is a chartered institution with a good record for twenty-five 
years. I invite you all to come and see how we get on. Mor- 
rill has already made me a call. We can show you seventy-five 
nice young ladies (if you don't come pretty soon, perhaps a hun- 
dred) and a commodious house amid the most charming scenery 
of the beautiful valley of the Connecticut river. The latch- 
string is always out for all of you, and for your daughters when 
they are ready to "go away to school." 

Nearly ten years at Lafayette College and I presume, if life 
and health are spared, at least ten years here. So you can all 
easily remember. If any change occurs, I will hope to tell you 
all about it in 1886 — for I expect to be at the appointed reunion, 
and hope to see every member of '66. 

Yours cordially, E. Hubbard Barlow. 

BARTLETT. 

Bartlett, writing from Topeka, Kansas, headquarters of the 
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, that great " Colossus 
of Roads, " classes himself as an " editor and literary skirmisher," 
and answering the inquiry as to the titles and dates of his publi- 
cations, continues: " Newspaper editorials and correspondence; 
also edited several school books of eclectic series, published in 
Cincinnati, by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co, Cannot give titles 
or dates. Left Minneapolis, Minn., 1875, for Cincinnati, O,, 
where for six years I was principal assistant in the editorial de- 
partment of the extensive school book house of Van Antwerp, 
Bragg & Co. Came to Topeka, May, 1881. My duties here are 
editorial." 

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BELCHER. 
Belcher reported in person at the reunion last summer that he 
was still practicing law in New London, and, with his clients, 
deriving therefrom more than the average amount of success 
and satisfaction. His family record has not been supplied for 
the present series of Chronicles. 



BELL. 

NUNDA, N. Y., Oct. 12, i88i. 
Dear Classmates of '66: 

As one name after another is starred on our class roll, and 
we draw nearer to the final goal, a sacredness gathers around 
the old college days, and the memory of classmates all. 

Out in the busy world I have tried to bear my humble part. 
Graduating at Bangor Seminary, July 30, 1868, I was ordained 
Aug. 5th, and married, Aug. lith, to Miss Emma H. Curtiss, 
who has contributed what only a true and noble woman can 
towards my happiness and success. 

Three beautiful girls scatter sunbeams in our home : Gertrude, 
born April 4, '71 ; Maude, born May 30, '74. and Florence, born 
May 23, '78. 

Two baby boys wait for us on the heavenly shore : Herbert, 
born Aug. 4, '69, died Jan. 15, '70. and Frank, born Sept. 29, '72, 
died Jan. 10, '73. God has given us great satisfaction in the 
work to which He has called us, and crowned our labors with 
His blessing. In 1873 we left a pleasant pastorate to engage in 
foreign missionary work, but were compelled to return home in 
'76, in order to save Mrs. Bell's life. 

1 am now pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Nunda, 
and she presides at the parsonage, where any member of dear 
old '66 will find a welcome from the happy family. 
With growing interest in you all, 

I am, very sincerely, 

NEwroN H. Bell. 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 11 



BISHOP. 

[From the 2^. Y. Herald, April i, ?] 

Personal. — Information wanted of Edward N. Bishop, for- 
merly of the Amherst College Class of i866. When last heard 
from was a travelling boot and shoe salesman, with headquarters 
in Boston. 



BLAKE 
Soda Bay Hotel, Lake County, Cal., 
June 13th, 1881. 
Its no use ! You really must count me out from the reunion 
this year — that is to say — so far as bodily presence is concerned. 
Having acted so unprofessionally heretofore as to make two trips 
east at my own expense (in one of which, fortunately, I met some 
of you at our last Class gathering), I have now become con- 
science stricken, and have vowed a vow that the next time I 
visit the Atlantic coast I will do it in the orthodox legal way, to 
wit, at the expense of some hapless client who shall bleed gold 
therefor at every pore. Such a victim I have watched for this 
summer, but he wilfully refuses and neglects to appear. My 
clients all seem culpably engrossed in home matters, and I find 
myself obliged to lay the venue of all my actions in California. 
Perhaps they are afraid to trust me so far out of their sight as 
New York or Washington. I shall have, therefore, to throw 
myself upon the superior confidence of " '66," and ask to be al- 
lowed to present my case this time '' upon briefs " instead of 
orally. 

I believe that the last five years have wrought no very 
visible changes, except that I find of late an increasing tendency 
on the part of my barber, to hint at the virtues of his favorite 
and especial hair restorative. A few years more, and I presume 
that as soon as I remove my hat in any theater lobby, the usher 
will immediately want to take me to a front seat, among the 
other " bald heads." 

I am still practicing law in San Francisco, as the junior part- 
ner in the firm of '■'■Blake &= Blake," office at No. 417 Kearny 
street. Our business is of a quiet though somewhat laborious 



12 CHEONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

sort, being largely in the line of probate cases, and from it I de- 
rive a comfortable livelihood, but expect no sudden accession to 
wealth. 

I have thus far found my profession a sufficiently exacting 
mistress for my strength, and have done next to nothing in the 
way of literary work or special studies. My health, though fair, 
is not robust, and I am obliged to take care of myself as I go 
along. 

For the last three years I have been a " householder " at San 
Rafael, a pleasant and healthful suburb of San Francisco. Al- 
though married long enough now to have become entitled to a 
" tin wedding" some months ago, my wife and I have but one 
child, a bright and promising little girl of four years, who, of 
course, is quite sufficiently idolized. 

At the present we are all away in the " lake country " of 
California, on a long summer vacation ; which accounts for the 
unusual heading of this letter. 

I have a very warm place in my heart for all the members of 
" '66," and shall hope that a new edition of the Class Chronicles 
will soon " carry the news " to me of how they have all fared 
and prospered. 

Five years hence, I trust I may be able to answer " present " 
when the roll is called, but, whether present or absent, I shall al- 
ways be, with the pleasantest of recollections and the best of 
good wishes, your and their sincere friend and comrade, 

Maurice B. Blake. 



BLISS. 

Clinton, Conn., Oct. 4th, 1881. 

My report for the new Chronicles may be briefly made. Have 
before reported preaching at Centre Harbor, N. H., and South 
Hadley. I began preaching in Clinton, Conn. , near the close of 
1874. My regular engagement dates Jan. 1st, 1875, so that I 
have been here about seven years. 

I deserve a class medal for increasing the posterity of the 
Class. Some other member may have done better, if so I yield 
my claim. J. H. Bliss, 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 13 

BOARD. 
Writing from Chester, N. Y., Board says: " I have continued 
since graduation in the same business — lumber and feed — and 
with good success. Do not accumulate money fast but surely, 
and am thoroughly content. I have been three times supervisor 
of the town of Chester, but received no other political prefer- 
ment. 



BOND. 

Bond still continues in business in Chicago, according to 
Moody, who in a recent letter says that he hasn't seen him for 
years, though married and having two children. 



BRADBURY. 

Lincoln Center, Kansas, May 31, 1881. 

Tell '' the boys " for me that I am still alive, enjoying life as 
a missionary or circuit rider. I have a very pleasant home here 
in Lincoln Center. My father, now that mother is dead, lives 
with us, and preaches and works with all his might. He is 76 
years old, too. 

I have a wife and three little children, all girls. I find, as I 
stay here, I have plenty of friends and plenty of enemies, but I 
have plenty of joy according as I serve God and trust in Him. 

I still feel a strong love for my old classmates of '66, and I 
would try and be at the reunion; but its no use. My love to all 
the old boys. Let us all prepare for a glorious reunion on the 
other side of the river. 

Yours in '66, 

H. C. Bradbury. 



BRIDGMAN. 
Seven years more of sleep in Brooklyn and work in New York 
have only confirmed the faith of the secretary of the class in the 



14 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

truth of the late Mr. J. H. Payne's somewhat famiHar remark, that 
" there's no place like home." That is to say, that if a man 
really wants life with all the modern improvements, there's no 
place like New York. Here, insured by Trask against danger 
and loss by fire in this life, warned by Parkhurst against similar 
risks in that to come, taught mathematics and all other branches 
of human knowledge by Dike, the road to Greenwood made 
straight and easy by Peirce, and the effects and orphans intrusted 
to the tender mercies of Spear ist and Valentine, what, in the 
words of the ancient inquirer, " lack I yet ?" If any member of 
'66 is as well " fixed," I shall be glad to hear from him. My 
present connection, now of nearly four years' standing, is with 
Frank Leslie's Publishing House, in charge of one of its busi- 
ness departments, to which I went directly from The Tribune, 
and apparently is likely for some time to continue. A full list of 
my principal publications to date, to which I shall ever " point 
with pride," may be found in its proper place in this volume. 
The daily demands of active business leave no time for regrets, 
and but little for recollection, but they will never be so exacting 
as to usurp the constant interest and sincere regard I have for 
the success and good fortune of all my classmates of '(yd. 



BROWN. 

In the last Chronicles (1874) Brown wrote, " Something 
eventful may happen to me before long." Reference to the sta- 
tistical pages at the close ot these Chronicles v»'ill show that this 
expectation was well founded. Brown is still connected with the 
auction and real estate agency house of E. H. Ludlow & Co., 
New York city, and will supply every member of '66 with the 
very best house for the least money. In his personal letter an- 
swering the Chronicles circular, Brown writes : " I want to say 
that I enjoyed very sincerely our reunion of last June, and shall 
look forward with pleasure to our next, at which as ' Pater ' Neill 
suggested, we should meet with our impedimenta, or rather 
helpmeets." 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 15 

CHANDLER. 

" After graduating, taught classics at Williston Seminary 
one year; was principal of Hopkins High School at Hadley two 
years ; principal of Glenwood Ladies' Seminary at Brattleboro', 
Vt., one year; started a school in Northampton, Mass., in 1870, 
called Norwood Ladies' Institute; went to Springfield in 1872 
and worked for Samuel Bowles on The Republican till Sept. i, 
1877 i then came to Boston and took a position on The Herald, 
where I am still employed. 

" We have a pleasant home on Wigglesworth street, Boston 
Highlands, where we shall be pleased to welcome any brother 
of '66 who may favor us with a call. 

" C. H. Chandler." 



COLE. 

The following letter from Cole was written in response to the 
circular of invitation to the Class reunion, at Amherst, in July, 
1 88 1, and is here given in lieu of later advices: 

Encampment (near Erzroomj, July 12, 1881. 

It may be you on that upper side, where the steam cars hum 
and the telephones unite distant cities in social and musical con- 
course, count 8,000 miles a small thing, but, I trow, it is because 
you have brought the science to such a pitch as we down in the 
darkness and lethargy of Turkey have not yet come. Though I 
have driven my engine worth some $25, up and down our field 
something less than a thousand miles the past year, two of which 
trips brought me out to the conjunction of Persia, Russia and 
Turkey, where I could kick old Ararat on the south ; and the 
second to Erivan plain in Russia, on the north of the sacred 
mountain ; yet this method of locomotion is getting no easier for 
me fast, especially when we take into account the apostolical 
thorn-in-the-fiesh which the hardships of the past three years 
have brought upon me in the form of a varicose limb. Hence I 
am thinking that, ere long, some of you will need to give me a 
chapter on " How «o/ to Travel," at least outside of our own 



16 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

New England diocese. In view of the great gap between us, 
why not throw out a mouth-piece, and let us chat through some 
of your new inventions, should you not find it convenient to call 
on Cole in his eastern home. If this be impracticable I can 
stand a letter from one or all of '' the boys," as a good old 
method of their contnbuting to my part of the reunion. Cer- 
tain it is, I find sufficient scope for my powers, especially pedes- 
trian, here, though now and then, surely now, the mental and 
sympathetic part takes wings and speeds away to you in that 
clean and beautiful land. I think of the gathering of classmates 
that will likely have taken place not far from the time I am pen- 
ning these words to you from the table lands of Asia. 

Our mission doctor has looked in on us, and ruled me out of 
the field and work for a time of rest ; but I have begged off from 
going to your beautiful America, and expect to pass the winter 
months, in company with my family (consisting — since the up- 
ward transfer of three^ incident to our late weird experience 
under the war — of wife and two boys, the younger. Nelson 
Franklin, born June 8th, i88o) down in Syria, another part ot 
sluggish Turkey. My address will be the same, as we hope to 
return here in the spring, to take up the weapons of our warfare 
that must needs be laid by for a season. Should you wish to hit 
us while down in Palestine, you might drive right straight with 
vour eyes for Mt. Pisgah, which, if we find high enough to get 
sight of you, may insure you a " nudge " from us in that far off 
land. 

With kindest salutations and a cordial invitation to have your 
next reunion with me, on the top of Mount Ararat, I subscribe 
myself in my two Turkey languages, which, being otherwise 
interpreted, means 



LiTLLE Cole of '66.'' 



(Read forwards,) 
(Read backwards,) 




CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. lY 

COOLEY. 

The business of the MedUcott Manufacturing Company at 
Windsor Locks, Conn., still engages Cooley's services, though 
he retains his residence, as of yore, at Longmeadow. 

COWAN. 
After leaving Amherst, Cowan took his theological course 
at Princeton and New York. He took charge of two Presby- 
terian churches — at Rogersville and New Market, Tennessee, 
in July, 1869, and was President of Rogersville Female College, 
in connection with supply of the church, 1871-1872. He re- 
moved to Jonesboro', Tenn., and supplied till 1877, taking a trip 
to Europe in 1876. Next he rested one year at Knoxville, and 
1878 removed to Wellesley, Mass., where he suppHed till April, 
1879, where he was installed pastor over the Congregational 
church. He is "keeping house" at the parsonage, and, with 
Mrs. Cowan, will always have a welcome for any of '66. Trials 
and joys have both been given, yet with mercy the cup runneth 
over. A great shadow fell upon the home in 1879; but it has 
served — it is believed — to fix the eye more steadily upon the one 
great hope of the future. 



CURTISS. 

Promptly on his return to Chicago, from his summer's ab- 
sence in Germany, Curtiss furnished the secretary with a full 
and accurate record of his life, adventures, works, degrees, etc., 
all of which will be found in detail, in their proper place. (See 
pages 58 and 61, Chronicles of the Class of 1866, third edition 
New York, 1881). 



DAME. 
Swampscott, Mass., is given as Dame's latest post-ofifice 
address by the Amherst authorities ; probably while he was en- 
joying the summer vacation, bestowed upon favorite pastors, by 
fortunate city congregations like Dame's in Boston. No direct 
information from him, however, has been received. 
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18 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

DAVISON. 
R. E. Davison sends his best wishes to all of ^66. But little 
in my experience since last report that calls for typing. As 
health has permitted, my time has been mainly occupied in im- 
proving others' " timers." Shall ever be pleased to see or hear 
from any of '66; and for a while may be found at 354 Main st., 
Springfield, Mass. 
November 30, 188 1. 



DIKE. 

The fortunate institution in New York, where Dike expounds 
the beauties of mathematics and other things to fortunate young 
ladies, still continues to retain his services. 



FAIRBANKS. 

After the publication of the last Chronicles Fairbanks re- 
moved from Norwalk, Conn., to Worcester, Mass., and the prin- 
cipalship of its High School. In 1879 he transferred his flag to 
Williston Seminary, Easthampton, where he soon brought order 
out of chaos, discipline out of defect and despondency, and, in 
general, caused the institution to " brace up " and take a new 
start worthy its record, as the a/ma mater of such men as Fair- 
banks and the principal fitting school for Amherst College. 
Fairbanks still continues in charge of the Seminafy, now on the 
flood tide of prosperity, and if he isn't satisfied with this " puff " 
of himself and his institution he has only himself to blame, for 
he didn't answer the secretary's " Chronicles " circular. 



FISH. 

If Fish has anything new to report, or if any member desires 
to speak for him, ample space will be accorded in the next edi- 
tion of the '■ Chronicles," though postponement until that uncer- 
tain day is to be regretted. No information has been received 
for the current volume, 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OP '86. 19 

FISHER. 

At present I am the down-easter of the class, the last repre- 
sentative (I believe) as one goes toward the sun-rising before 
reaching the " high table lands of Armenia." And I boast of 
being the nearest to the lobster, blueberry, and ice of com- 
merce, and to fly-fishing on the Molechunkamunk and Moosto- 
comaguntic. What is still less expected is that I am preaching 
to a congregation v^hich includes the students and faculty of 
Bowdoin College, among the latter the Amherst tutor in geome- 
try in the autumn of 1862. Two years ago I was installed 
here as pastor, and took up a work which I heartily approve of 
and enjoy. 

FRENCH. 
After leaving '66 at Amherst, French taught for several 
years in Philadelphia and Madison, N.J., and graduated in 1866, 
as a physician, at the medical department of the University of 
Pennsylvania. He afterwards practiced his profession in Chi- 
cago, where he was married in 1878. His death, at Kansas 
City, August 24th, 1879, was entirely sudden and unexpected, its 
immediate cause having been hemorrhage of the lungs. 

GAYLORD. 

The events of a country parson's life are not very striking, 
but may be briefly summed up as follows : 

After graduation, I taught for four years in Frederica and 
Milford, Del. In 1870, entered the Middle Class in Lane Theo- 
logical Seminary; married July 27, 1871, to Annie E. Foulk, of 
Milford; graduated from Lane in May, 1872; settled for one 
year as Licentiate in Hautsburgh, Geauga Co., O.; in May, 1873, 
was ordained and installed Pastor of Westminster Presbyterian 
Church, Georgetown, Kent Co., Md., where I remained for seven 
and one half years; in October, 1880, removed on account of 
poor health to Paradise, Lancaster Co., Pa., where I was installed 
November i6th over the Leacock Presbyterian Church. Wish- 
ing all health, prosperity and the peace of God, 

Yours truly, 
Leaman Place, Lancaster Co , Pa., E. W. Gaylord. 

November 30. 1881. 



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HARRIS. 

Providence, June 6, i88i. 
The proposed meeting of the remnants of '66 meets my 
heartiest approval, yet at the same time makes me unhappy be- 
cause I cannot enjoy the festivities of the occasion. I am to 
sail for Europe the same week, and have not that ubiquity 
which is desirable under such circumstances. 

Sixty-six is not a bad class as classes go, and will come out 
right, if time enough is given. Please express my regret at los- 
ing this 15th reunion, with the hope that we shall all be present 
in 1886. Yours truly, 

George Harris. 

A recent letter from Providence states that Rev. George Har- 
ris, pastor of the Central Congregational Church of that city, 
will remain abroad until the Spring of 1882. 



HORTON. 
No intelligence has been received from Horton, who is be- 
lieved to enjoy the soHtary distinction of being the only member 
of '66 from whom, since graduation, no direct and authentic in- 
formation has been obtained. A case for Pinkerton. 



HUFFORD. 

Instruction in Latin and Greek in the Indianapolis (Ind.) 
High School engages the attention of Hufford, who for six years 
was superintendent of the schools of New Castle, in that State, 
and later of those of Henrj' county. 



KIMBALL 

Is at present teaching Physics in the Worcester Free Institute, 
Worcester, Mass. He has not studied Law, Theology nor 
Medicine, neither has he received any honorary degrees. He 
married Miss Eunice M. Beede early in the winter of '66. The 
following winter Albert B. Kimball, the class boy, was born. 
In July, '68, his wife died. In '71 he married Miss Ellie M. 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 21 

Everett, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary. His 
youngest son, Everett, is seven years old, and his only daughter 
Eleanor, is two and one- half. He is not responsible for any 
publications if we except a lialf-dozen articles in the Ajnerican 
yotirnal of Science and Van Nostrand' s Engineerings and a 
little manual on Thermodynamics published for the use of his 
class. 

Albert, the class boy, is in the city high school, and seems 
to be doing quite well. 

Kimball enjoys his work, has ample time for study, and sees 
no reason why he may not regard Worcester as his home. 



KING. 
From 1866 to 1874, King was in West Virginia, engaged in 
the manufacture of salt and mining of coal. From '74 to '80, 
he was occupied in the construction and management of rail- 
roads in and near New York. In October, 1880, he became gen- 
eral manager of the Elizabeth City and Norfolk Railroad, a posi- 
tion he still occupies, residing in Norfolk, Va. 



LIPPITT. 
The courts and bar of New London are still familiar with 
Lippitt, and his practice in both is said to be in the highest de- 
gree creditable to his early training at Amherst. 



MARSH. 
No announcement has been received of any change in 
Marsh's " life and calling " since his appearance in the last 
Chronicles, as engaged in the practice of law at Chicago, 111. 



MOODY. 
They haven't heard ofjhe "tenure of office act" in Chicago. 
Moody, writing from his desk in the city clerk's office, says : " I 
have nothing to add to that contained in the last Chronicles. I 



22 CHRONICLES OP THE CLASS OE '66. 

am in the same business, same wife and family, and the only- 
change is in my age." 



MORRILL. 

Gentlemen of '66: 

" What shall we say then ? " I want to write a particu- 
larly '' Phunny '' letter and play young, as my heart is only 
sweet sixteen, although my great body (44) is getting 
"aweary of this Httle world." Merchant of Venice (Act I, 
Scene II). Rhetorical Exercise, boys ! old chapel, Wednesday 
P. M., Prof. Vose. But it will never do, for my sons and daughters 
would not understand it, and might run wild the rest of their 
natural days. Yes, as I wrote Bridgman, a few days since, 
the lengthening shadows of the afternoon of life are drawing on 
apace for most of us, gentlemen, and soon it will be the twi- 
light and then night ? No ! but the rosy dawn of a better, 
a grander day, limitless as the Infinite. 

But what have you been doing, Morrill, all these years ? you 
ask. Oh !— everything. Seem to have a wonderful versatility 
of talent and an India-rubber adaptability to all the varied occu- 
pations of life, as most men have who must rear and educate 
three sons and two daughters. When I began life I expected to 
do some great thing (exploit is it ?), and then die. You know, 
boys, how very natural that feeling was in our day; but God 
has otherwise ordered and directed me to do infinitesimal de- 
tailed Httle things and live on. I accept the situation most 
cheerfully and try to do those little things well, without any 
hope or expectation of reward, simply because it's clear that 
my highest happiness lies in this direction. 

By referring to the Class Chronicles of '69 I noticed that I 
wrote of risking my precious life for the nation during the Civil 
War; of engaging in the insurance business subsequently in 
New York city three years. 

Then of my marriage in 1866 to Sarah Chamberlain Bell, 
Class '65, Mt. Holyoke Seminary; birth of two children — Ger- 
trude L. (now 14, and reading Csesar. Great shades of Scipio, 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 23 

how old we are growing!) ; and Calvin Morrill. And, lastly, of 
the beginning of my official career as an officer of the Customs, 
Port of New York. 

In Chronicles of 1874 I wrote that I was " still collecting the 
revenues of this great and growing country, and still trying to 
maintain a great and growing family. " 

Well, like a good, ripe apple (I hope), I fell from the political 
tree in the autumn of that year (and left political Hfe with the 
kindest regards and best wishes of my friend and chief, Gen. 
Arthur, now President of the United States); and was instantly 
devoured by a monster ambition to engage in the work of gen- 
eral education and the diffusion of knowledge. 

The first I accomplished quickly, as my stock was limited 
and the field small. Besides, I wasn't appreciated like aWg-reai 
educators, even by myself, and it evidently wasn't my " forte '' 
exactly. I " acted " as Principal of the Moore's Mills' Institute 
(with 4 teachers and 25 pupils), a httle boarding school near 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., nearly a year; and this httle recreation in- 
volved an outlay of only a thousand with much experience in 
return. 

Then I retreated to my native heath, old Vermont, in 
" good order," and took up with the other horn of the delirium, 
viz., "the diffusion of knowledge." It took the form of 
selling books. Book agent, you exclaim, omnes ! Oh, no ; 
General Bookseller, Importer, &c., representing Charles Scrib- 
ner & Sons, New York, with residence in Bellows Falls, Vt. 

And nov/ as to the " growing family." 

Some years since, I had the pleasure of meeting personally 
that prince among men, Tom Hughes, in New York, in com- 
pany with a Httle party of friends. 

I remember that among other good things he remarked: 
" The ambition of an Englishman is to found a family, while 
that of the American is to found an institution." Now, I have 
resigned on the institution, and taking back to my old English 
stock have " found " a family. 

One '■ sweet httle cherub went up aloft '' (Calvin, in '71) 
from Brooklyn. But four have blossomed into life since, so now 



24 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OE '66. 

we have three sons and two daughters —Harry Bell. George 
Pillsbury, James Percival, all of whom, although they will be 
eligible, yet will be pledged not to accept the Presidency of the 
United States, for obvious reasons. Names of daughters, Ger- 
trude Lee and Julie Chamberlain. 

Well, dear old '66, I have now but one purpose in the few 
years, if any, left me here, and that is to make the most I can of 
these dear children committed to my charge. 

You never can know how I rejoice in the brilliant success 
and greatness of so many of you who are eminent in the various 
trades and professions, and I shall ever watch your career with 
increasing interest. '' Perge, perge ad majora,'' (Please, don't 
laugh). Vale! Vale I 

" We part, we part, over the unknown sea ; 
We go, we go to mysteiy." 

(Sweetser, Class poem, '62.) 
Julius A. Morrill. 



MORRIS. 

Thus briefly and tersely Morris sums up his account current 
with the world to date : 

"After six years of preaching and teaching at Lake Mohe- 
gan, Peekskill, N. Y., I was called to assist in All Saints' Church 
and St. John's School in Sing Sing, N. Y. Was hard at work 
there for three years. Then I went to Fairfield, N. Y., where I 
staid two years, preaching and acting as chaplain of Fairfield 
Seminary. 

On the 1st of January, 1881, I accepted the rectorship of 
Christ Church, in Bethany, Conn.'' 



MOSES. 

Your circular and note suggest another look at the existing 
editions of our class " Chronicles,'' revive interest in the " fel- 
lows," and awaken expectation of the forthcoming edition. 

Fifteen years ! Is it possible .'' 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 25 

In a personal review of this time one thing stands forth as 
supremely important ; in fact, viewed as an abiding experience, 
it is the only thing of any value — the gift from Heaven of living 
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (in the spring of 1868), in distinc- 
tion from a former, theoretical, inoperative, dead faith. This 
faith has been valuable subjectively for its assurance and comfort. 
Objectively its fruits have been meagre enough— some theologi- 
cal study, some preaching, some teaching, some business. 

At present I am Postmaster at this place. 

Fraternally, Vincent Moses. 

West Medway, Mass., November 21, 1881. 



NEILL. 



My course after leaving Amherst was uninterrupted. The 
three years next after graduation were spent at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, and the next five at Fort Edward, N. Y., as pas- 
tor of the Presbyterian Church. In January, 1875, 1 came to Am- 
herst and sat in the chair of Rhetoric and English Literature, 
though I did not fill it, and here I have been ever since. My resi- 
dence here, where every year I see classes come back for their re- 
unions, makes me blush more deeply than ever that we should 
have lost the full delight of our subsequent class-suppers by 
wickedly abandoning the first one. I am ashamed of my part 
of the blame, and I earnestly hope that our class will show the 
true and best side of their naturally manly natures by making 
unusual efforts to attend the next supper and reunion. We can 
do a great deal yet to undo the fault of the past. If you all 
could be where I am and see the heartiness and rejuvenation 
with which other classes meet and enjoy each other, you would 
sacrifice a good deal to come to our 20th anniversary. 

Having made my little scream, I will go on- to say that I was 
married December 22d, 1875, to Miss Abby W. Redfield, of 
Pittsfield, Mass. We have no children, but plenty of room for 
any of you who may drop down into these old haunts. 
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26 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

NOYES. 

Florida, N. Y., June 28, 1881. 

Of myself, my history and my plans I have not much to 
communicate in addition to what you already know. I am now 
preaching in Florida, New York, where I have been for nearly 
two years, and where any of my friends shall receive a cordial 
welcome if they will call. Here in the enjoyment of my family, 
consisting of wife and four children, I am trying to do my duty 
as well as I can in that work which I have chosen as my life 
work. 

With the best of wishes for every member of '66, and with 
the hope that at the next reunion I may meet them all, 
I am yours sincerely, in the bonds of '66, 

S. D. NOYES. 



PAINE. 
San Bernardino, Cal., Nov. 10, 1881. 

When, in 1870, I left the principalship of Columbus (Ohio) 
High School, after four years spent in teaching, there, in Dayton 
and Muncie, Ind., and came to California, I had then the design 
of pursuing horticulture, and began the business, but unfavor- 
able circumstances forced me to abandon it, and follow again my 
profession of teaching. Being determined to become a grower 
of choice fruits at some future period, I began my teaching in 
this locality, so well adapted to horticulture, but not so inviting 
a field to the aspiring teacher. I became quite a veteran in the 
service I love so well, leaving it only in June, 1880. I have 
given my best energies to the pursuit and filled as worthily as I 
could all the educational positions this section affords, those of 
teacher, trustee, county superintendent, examiner and member of 
the county Board of Education, of which body I have the honor 
to be president. 

Now I am domiciled with my dear wife and charming chil- 
dren in a nice home of our own, at the base of the foothills of 
Mt. San Bernardino, by the side of a beautiful mountain stream, 
in which I have an ownership : for here, in southern California 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 27 

(lat. 34*), the cultivator must own water for irrigation to pass 
successfully through the long rainless summers. Our climate is 
delightful, the heat very rarely oppressive, and the cold never 
great. California, and especially this portion of it, is justly famed 
for choice and luscious fruits. No portion of the United States 
certainly could make so splendid and profuse an array of fruits 
as may be found at our horticultural fairs. The whole country 
of southern California is by nature barren and uninviting, and to 
make this desert blossom like the rose and yield a good income, 
requires not only labor but much skill. 

Let my brothers, when wearied of professional life, as all 
men are sooner or later, come and make homes for themselves 
in this favored land. 

You will meet a welcome from your brother, 

Chas. R. Paine. 



PARKHURST. 
A Madison Square pastorate leaves Parkhurst time only to 
furnish the following "skeleton," as it were, of his sermon of 
life to date: " Principal of Amherst High School, from April, 
1867, to July, 1869; studied in Germany during i869-'7o; taught 
in Williston Seminaiy, Easthampton, in i87o-'72; was married 
to Nellie Bodman, of Northampton, November 23d, 1870; stud- 
ied in Germany in i872-'74 ; called to pastorate of Congrega- 
tional Church in Lenox, Mass., in 1874; remained there until 
Feb., 1880; installed over Madison Square Presbyterian Church, 
New York City, March, 1880." 



PEIRCE. 

New York, June 28th, 1881, 
Just at this time, the last moment, when I supposed that I 
had my plans all arranged to meet with the fellows at the class 
reunion, I find that I am to be disappointed, and, indeed, I am 
very much disappointed. I shall have to put up with it, though 
with very bad grace. I am in just the condition of the Dutch- 
man's dead wife. When the lacrymose parson was viewing the 



28 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

lifeless clay, and endeavoring to pour balm and oil into the 
wounded and bruised heart of the bereaved Teuton, he asked, 
among other questions, if the good lady was resigned to her fate. 
" Mein Gott! she had to be,'' responded the matter of fact hus- 
band. So, I'll have to be resigned to my failure to be with you 
all. My very warmest remembrances to all the classmates that 
gather with you. Tell them that fifteen years has added more 
than three times fifteen pounds to my avoirdupois. I am well, 
happy, barring the present disappointment, and prosperous. 
Very sincerely yours, 

Henry T. Peirce. 

Answering the " Chronicles" circular, Peirce merely adds : 
" I guess that the letter I sent, of regret from being unable 
to be with you all at the reunion, combines all my hopes and 
fears. Though, I might remark, that this baby of ours has 
arrived home in good order. " H. T. P." 



PELTON. 
Scene— Amherst Commencement Day, i88i. 

Dra7fiatis Perso7ice. 

Edvardus Payson Crowell, Mr., Tutor, Ling, et Lit. Lat. 
Prof. Moore, et Ling. Germ. Pr£ec. 

Johannes Ambrosius Deady, Mr., LL.B., Columb., 1868. 

A Graduate of 1866. 

Crowell {loquitur). \^Shaking hands with the Graduate?^ Yes, 
sir. I am very glad to see you back, sir. I must confess, though, 
that I have forgotten your name. What class did you say ? 

Deady. You should know and recognize him well, Professor, 
now he has, as you see, his "Pelt-on." 

[^ExeuJit o/nnes. Nunc est bibendum.\ 

Pelton spent the time from graduation until the summer of 
1 87 1 in the study and practice of law in New York city. He 
then removed to Poughkeepsie to engage in manufacturing, in 
which place and business he still continues. 



PHELPS. 
In May, 1881, Phelps and the secretaiy of '66 met, most un- 
expectedly, in the Palmer House, Chicago, the former being then 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 29 

on his way to Minneapolis, Minn., to begin active worlv on con- 
► tracts for the construction of a railroad in that State. He had 
just completed an extensive w^ork in Maryland, which had fixed, 
his headquarters for some time in Washington, and having ap- 
parently abandoned politics and the Massachusetts Legislature 
permanently and " for better or for worse,'' Phelps may be 
counted on to build roads as long as the people want to pay him 
for them. 



PHIPPS. 

[From the College Obituary Record, 1877.] 

CHji^RLES Richard Phipps, the son of Moses and Melissa 
(Crafts) Phipps, was born at Oxford, Mass., Dec. i, 1841, and 
was prepared for college at Nichols' Academy, Dudley, Mass. 
His delicate' health made it seem unwise for him to study a pro- 
fession, and the three years immediately succeeding his gradua- 
tion were spent in teaching; one year as principal of the High 
School in Shrewsbury, Mass., and two years as instructor in 
Latin and Higher English in Washington University, St. Louis, 
Mo. But the effects of this sedentary life upon his health warned 
him of the necessity of changing his occupation, and, the next 
two years were spent in the life insurance business in Brookfield 
and then in St. Joseph, Mo. ; first as agent, and then as assistant 
manager of the N. W. Missouri Department of the Life Asso- 
ciation of America. But the progress of disease made another, 
and, as it proved, final change imperative, and in the spring of 
1 87 1 he removed to Denver, Col., where, as agent of the same 
insurance company, the remaining six years of his life were 
passed. He died there of consumption, March 17, 1877. He was 
prominently identified with the First Congregational Church and 
Sunday School of Denver, being, at the time of his death, organ- 
ist of the one and teacher in the other. 

Mr. Phipps was married Aug. 7, 1867, to Maria Allen Green, 
daughter of Charles Otis Green, Esq., of Shrewsbury, Mass. 
Mrs. Phipps, with two children, survives him. 

IN MEMORIAM. 

"Charles Richard Phipps, Born at Oxford, Mass., Dec. 
1st, 1841. Died in Denver, Colorado, March 17th, 1877." 

Such are the brief facts taken from the obituary record of 
Amherst College for the year 1877. This record tells also of his 
teaching three years and being engaged in the insurance busi- 



30 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

ness for the rest of his life. It speaks of his years of delicate 
health and struggle with disease, till the brave fight was ended 
and death claimed the victor^^ 

It was a victory, however, only in name. The grander vic- 
tory belongs to him, who, with Christian faith and calm resigna- 
tion to the will of the Infinite, passes v.'ith cheerfulness the 
gloomy portals which separate us from the Hereafter. Such 
consecrated courage was the possession of our classmate Phipps. 
Sitting beside him in the recitation room and standing near him 
in the gymnasium day after day, there comes no recollection of 
ever hearing an ungentlemanly or unchristian word. 

He was active in all the religious work of the class, and free 
from cant. He was a faithful conscientious student and perse- 
vering in what he undertook. The faults he had to contend 
against, he fought with genuine Christian vigor. His death left 
a wide gap in our class. 

Next to the sorrow of family and relatives is that which 
comes into a college class when one of its number is taken. 
And so, with our sorrow, we extend our heartfelt sympathy to 
those who, in the home circles, were more immediately bereaved 
in his death. S. B. R. 

Amherst, Oct. 14th, 1881. 



PLUMB. 

The " very latest '' from Plumb is received v/hile the Chron- 
icles are in press, under date of November 29, 1 881, as follows : 

"First Pastorate at Fort Scott, Kansas, from October, 1868, 
to December, 1874; from December, 1874, to October, 1876, at 
Springfield, Mo., where we have a college (Drury) located ; from 
October, 1876, to October, 1879, at Joplin, Mo.; from October, 
1879 to November, 1 881, at Brookfield, Mo.; November 27th, 
1 88 1, called to the Pilgrim Congregational Church of Hannibal, 
Mo. I have organized two churches; built four church edifices, 
and have averaged an accession to the churches of which I have 
been Pastor of twenty members a year for the years of my min- 
istry." 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 31 

'* My ministerial life has been an exceedingly happy one and 
never more happy or hopeful than now. I count it all joy to 
labor in this good work. 

" Coming as I did, under peculiar circumstances, into the 
class of '66, the lapse of time makes me more and more appre- 
ciative of the uniform courtesy and kindness which I received 
from them. It will be one of the greatest of pleasures if I can 
be with them in '86." 



RAND. 

THE STORY. 

Affectionately Inscribed to the Class of '66, by the grateful 

Author. 

Once there was a little boy named Stephen. He was born at 
a young and tender age in the great, wicked city of New York. 
When two years old, he migrated with his parents to the wilds 
of western Holyoke. This place has since become distinguished 
for making paper and selling liquor. 

Stephen was a conceited boy, and like the majority of chil- 
dren, lacked somewhat in common sense ; but a judicious use of 
an old slipper on the maternal, and an apple-tree switch on the 
paternal side of the house, soon knocked out some of the self- 
conceit, and beat in a little common sense. 

When he was of a proper age, his father used to take him 
annually to visit Amherst College on Commencement Day. Lit- 
tle Stephen looked with awe and admiration upon the pale-faced, 
long-haired students, passed with no little fear the fierce-looking 
police with long poles who guarded the portals of the old village 
church, spent all his loose pennies for gingerbread and small 
beer on the village green, walked with open-mouthed wonder 
down the aisles of glass cases containing beetles and other " big 
bugs," and withal was filled with an ardent desire to "get an 
education." His wish was subsequently gratified. After two 
years at Williston Seminary, where he was noted for his skill in 
pulling the bell-rope and the organ-tail for an adequate pecuniaiy 
consideration, and where he did the hardest study of his life, 



32 CHROmCLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

after a year with freshmen in the redoubtable class of '65, and an- 
other year at the war, he became a distinguished member of the 
class of '66. 

Stephen did not take the valedictory in his class, " Circum- 
stances over which he had no control '' prevented. He was, 
however, kindly permitted by the Faculty to say a little piece 
concerning- "Church Music,'' which took him four minutes and 
sixteen seconds, or thereabouts, to deliver. 

After graduation he spent three years in Rochester, New 
York, studying theology. In this city he also found a good wife, 
who has been a loving help-meet for the last twelve years. The 
first six years of their married life was spent in Maulmain, Bur- 
mah, where they had a pleasant home, notwithstanding its hea- 
thenish surroundings. While there is much in the work dis- 
tasteful, according to Western ideas, still they enjoyed it very 
much, and with sincere regret bade farewell to the dear home 
and the affectionate but uncouth people, and came again to 
America on account of Stephen's rheumatism. He fondly hoped 
to be soon well again. But after a few years it became evident 
that nothing would cure him, and so, with his family, he came 
to live in old Amherst, where he will be glad to see any mem- 
bers of '66 who chance to come that way. 

Everybody has been kind to him, from Uncle Sam, who gives 
him a pension on account of his infirmity, down to the black 
factotum, rejoicing in the euphonious name of " Durrumlin- 
gerrrr," who used to tote along his personal effects in Burmah. 

A private letter from Bartlett to the author, written a few 
years ago. says: "You missionary fellows believe in the motto 
*■ crescite et niultipUcamijii,^'''' and inquires after the size of the 
family. Two arrivals since then. The statistical table will ex- 
plain. In the language of the old ladies, the children are " nat- 
urally bright. " Ask Win. Wood. He has seen 'em. 
Appendix A. 

The author must beg pardon of the other Stephens in the 
class for appropriating the name for the hero of his story. 
Appendix B. 

If the above Latin quotation is not correct, either Parkhurst 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 33 

or Blake will please make it right. The author has mislaid his 
Latin Grammar, and Bartlett's letter is not at hand, 
Erratiun. 
For " distinguished member '' read " member of the distin- 
guished class." A stupid blunder of the author's private secre- 
tary. 



ROE. 
My life work thus far has been in dairy farming, excepting a 
short time spent in Ohio as a teacher. I have run no races, nor 
written any books, neither jumped into matrimony, and the inci- 
dents of my public acts are mostly of a religious character, and 
of the kind which laymen generally contribute to this service. 
I keep up reading in a general way, and although no stranger to 
manual toil, I thoroughly believe in work with head, hand and 
heart. The last meeting was a real source of pleasure because 
of the active interest each manifested in the welfare of the Col- 
lege and the help given in the progress of humanity in his own 
sphere of influence. C. B. Roe. 



SARGENT. 
Congregational Parsonage, 

Brookline, N. H., Oct. 24, 1881. 
Dear Classmates: 

There is very little in my history since the last " Chronicles " 
were published that would be of especial interest to any of '66. 
Life in a country parish, while varied with the trifles that make 
up its existence, is exceedingly tame and uninteresting to an out- 
sider. 

As I was twelve years ago, so I am, today, pastor of the 
Congregational Church in this place, among a people, many of 
whom have become very dear to me, endeavoring to accomplish 
the little or much that duty suggests. Providence has been very 
kind to us, and no severe sickness or greater trial has entered 
our home. Invitations from other and larger fields, containing 
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34: CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

inducements to sunder the tie that binds us to this place and 
people, have been received, but as yet none have seemed suffi- 
ciently significant to warrant acceptance. 

As to titles — honors are easy, so far as I am concerned. I 
have expounded theology, written proclamations, drawn up wills, 
settled disputes, run a farm a'nd saw-mill, administered on an es- 
tate, superintended schools, and other things too numerous to 
mention, and the sole honor above that which installation gave 
me, is comprehended in "G. C," which, being interpreted, 
means, chief State officer in a small social insurance society ; and 
yet I am happy, contented and good — to entertain any of '66, 
who will favor me with a call. 

Yours in the bonds, 

F. D. Sargent. 



SEIPLE. 

The latest postal information, a few months since, gives his 
address as Landisville, Pa., and in the absence of any informa- 
tion to the contrary, it is presumed that he is still practicing law 
at that place. 



SMALL. 
In the summer of '66 I went West, and spent one year farm- 
ing in southern Illinois ; then went to Missouri and spent six 
months engineering on the extension of the Iron Mountain 
Railroad. Returned to Boston in i868, and put in four years 
as assistant wharfinger of Boston Wharf, and three more as 
superintendent of Roberts' paper mill at Waltham. January, 
1875, I came to Baldwinsville, built and started a paper mill un- 
der the firm name of Small, Gould & Co. Mr. Gould dying the 
next year, the whole management of the mill has been left to me 
up to the present time. Two years ago I began traveling the 
crooked and narrow way to the United States Patent Office, 
which has resulted in the formation of the Union Carpet Lining 
Company of Boston. The result of seven years' work here has 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 35 

been largely experience, for which I have paid the usual price. 
Nevertheless, I am still in the market to buy, and have none to 
sell, as I consider it the best money a man can coin his time into. 
So much for business. As for family, I have a wife and three 
boys, that are all any one could desire (I mean in quality), a 
good house on a hill, from which I can see twentv miles north to 
the Grand Monadnock Mountain, fifteen east to Wachuset, and 
west to the Green Mountains of Vermont, and where I should 
be most happy to see any member of ''66. " KAA AYNAMIN 
ErAEIN," which (if my knowledge of Greek serves me right) 
being interpreted is — '' Whoop her up for '66." 

H. M. Small. 



SMITH (ist). 
The mastery of the English High School of Boston still en- 
gages Smith's time and attention, and as the years pass it be- 
comes more apparent that the customary grip of the '' Hub " 
upon its denizens and devotees is firmly fastened upon Smith. 
In a recent letter he says that but for the sudden death of a sis- 
ter he would have been present at the last reunion of '66 at 
Amherst, and continues: " It would give me great pleasure to 
meet my classmates and renew my youth in talking over what 
was enjoyable in our college experience.'' 



SMITH (2d). 

TiLLlPALLY, Jaffna, Ceylon, 
Aug. 22, i88i. 
In 1 886 I hope, D. V., to be on hand to share in the exer- 
cises — a sufficiently seedy alumnus of twenty years' standing. 
I have now been out here just ten years, and with the exception 
of three months in 1877 and three months this year, spent on 
the hills in South India, I have had no vacations and no relief 
from constant work. 

In 1878 I removed from Manippay to Tillipally, in order to 
take charge of the Training and Theological Institute at this 



36 CHKOOTCLES OP THE CLASS OF '66, 

place. This station is nearly twice as extensive and populous as 
Manippay, having 20,000 inhabitants within a radius of three 
miles from my house, with twenty day schools besides the Insti- 
tute, which is really an Anglo-vernacular normal school, with 
about forty boarders and no day scholars. Until last January, 
howevei-, I had to retain charge of all my old work at Manippay, 
including the depository and printing office, the dispensary, med- 
ical class, &c., &c., because we had no man to put there in my 
place. Now, however, we have a lay missionaiy at Manippay, 
and I am happily relieved of a good deal of work which I could 
not do well while not living at that place. I have also had to 
try my hand as architect and master builder on rather an exten- 
sive scale for one untrained in such work, in planning and su- 
perintending the erection of new buildings for the Oodoovil Fe- 
male Boarding School, which is four and a half miles away 
from my own station. The Women's Board gave us $6,000 for 
this, but we have spent $8,000 or more, and now they are not 
very willing to make a supplementary grant. The buildings are 
to accommodate 100 boarders, besides comprising a large school 
room, several recitation rooms, and a suite of apartments for one 
or two young ladies from America to preside over the school. 
The building is only one story high, but it is rather extensive, 
about 260 feet in extreme length with average width of 50 feet. 
It is irregularly cruciform, is built of cut coral stone and burned 
brick, and has a very strong truss roof, covered with tiles im- 
ported from India. This has taken much of my time and strength 
for two years past, and it is not even yet finished, though I hope 
to get it done in two months or so. 

We are also raising a local endowment for this school in the 
shape of fifty scholarships for the aid of pupils who cannot them- 
selves pay all the fees. The government here gives liberal aid 
according to the results of a thorough annual examination by a 
good inspector, and we have undertaken to support the school 
hereafter with no aid from America excepting for the salary of 
the foreign preceptress. 

I still have charge of the entire system of elementary educa- 
tion in the Ceylon Mission of the American Board. There is a 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 37 

native Board of Education, with an efficient secretary and execu- 
tive committee, whom I have to manage and train in the conduct 
of the schools ; and it is often, as you can easily imagine, more 
difficuU to worl< through them than it would be to deal directly 
with the schools in a more autocratic way. But, we want to 
train the native Christians to habits of self-dependence and self- 
government in all these matters, and so we throw upon them all 
the responsibility which they can possibly meet. We have now 
under the control of this Board of Education about 150 schools 
with over 200 teachers and nearly 10,000 pupils. With an an- 
nual grant in aid of about $600 from the Mission, these schools 
earn nearly $12,000 annually from the Government by their an- 
nual examinations. I have to be responsible for the expenditure 
of all these funds, to pass upon every teacher's salary, to corre- 
spond with the Director of Public Instruction, and keep myself 
informed as fully as possible of the state of each school. I also 
hold teachers' institutes and annual written prize examinations, 
and do all that I can to promote the efficiency and value of the 
schools from a missionary point of view. 

But all this is supplementary to the work of preaching to the 
heathen in the school houses and in their own homes, and in my 
study when they come to see me on errands of various kinds, 
often with a very palpable axe to grind. There is probably no 
part of the heathen, at least of the Hindu heathen world where 
the influence of Christianity has more thoroughly permeated 
the community; where prejudices and misconceptions have been 
so fully removed ; where so much progress in the enlightenment 
of the people has been made ; and still the masses remain nom- 
inally heathen, attached to the heathen festivals as grand public 
hoHdays, as Americans are to the 4th of July and muster-day and 
cattle show, and though intellectually convinced of the claims of 
Christianity, they are unwilling to become Christians because it 
has not yet become the popular religion. Of course, what they 
really need is a sense of personal need of what Christianity offers 
them. As fast as individuals feel this they become bold to come 
out as Christians, and what we want is a genuine revival of reli- 
gion. Nearly all of our thirteen churches are now entirely self- 



38 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

supporting and provided with ordained native pastors. The 
church communicants number nearly i,ooo in our mission, and 
about as many more in the two EngHsh missions in Jaffna, and 
there is a steady, though as yet not rapid, net gain every year. 
Every year we hope to see more rapid growth, but even with the 
present rate of increase it is only a question of time. I can re- 
ply, then, to your kind inquiry, that my "work is progressing," 
not to my entire "satisfaction," but certainly to my "encourage- 
ment." 

I don't believe any one of my classmates is more contented 
with his work than I am with mine, and I don't believe I should 
be able to do as much good in any sphere at home as I certainly 
have reason to feel that I am doing here. 

My health "has been pretty good, but nearly two years ago I 
had a severe attack of inflammation of the throat and nose. 
That left me afflicted with a chronic catarrhal affection which 
will always remain with me, I fear. It does not, however, now 
affect my general health, and by being veiy careful not to catch 
cold, I get along without any annoyance at all from this source 
of weakness. I have been greatly benefited by the three months 
on the hills. They are really mountains from 7,000 to 8,000 feet 
high. My father-in-law. Dr. Fairbank, of Western India, met 
us there, and remained with us all the while, and he and I 
tramped the whole range over, collecting ferns and birds, and 
enjoying a rare experience of life in the open air, without injury 
from our tropical sun. I hope to hold on now till 1885, and 
then go home for a more complete and thorough change. My 
wife, too, is pretty well, and our three little girls, nine, seven and 
three years old, have come back from the hills almost as rosy 
and rugged as if they had never seen Ceylon. I have made a 
long story of it, and feel almost ashamed to send so much in re- 
ply to your brief note to me, but I hope you won't feel utterly 
bored. 

My salutation to all the fellows, and a cordial invitation to 
any who maybe making the grand tour to switch off at Colombo 
or Point de Galle, and take the island steamer " Serendib " for a 
trip round Ceylon and a visit to their classmate and friend, 

Thos. S. Smith. 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OP '66. 39 

SPEAR (1st). 

The President of the class, now a confirmed "third termer," 
displays no trace of imperialistic tendencies in this brief sketch 
of his fortunes : 

" I am still in the active practice of the law at 22 Pine Street. 
New York city, and a partner in the law firm of Strong & Spear. 
New clients and larger fees every year are a sure sign of pros- 
perity. My business, and the care of a large Sunday School in 
Brooklyn, of which I am superintendent, leave me with no time 
' to kill.' Come and see me." 



SPEAR (2d). 
The one redeeming feature about life, for a long or short 
time in the "Queen City of the West," — Heaven save the mark, — 
and the city, are Spear's editorials in the Cincinnati Enquirer, 
which continues daily to flash through the smoke which envelops 
the unfortunate town, " Hke a raisin in a pie " {vide " Upidee "), 
and to instruct the faithful of the Democratic fold in their politi- 
cal duty. Every summer, like a wise editor and philosopher. 
Spear visits New York and Coney Island, seeking rest and brain 
food for the winter's campaign, a quest in which he appears 
always most successful. 

[Address by Hon. J. Edwin Spear, of Cincinnati, on taking 
the chair as temporary president of the State Democratic Con- 
vention, at Columbus, O., July 13, 1881 :J 

Gentlemen of the Convention : The Democracy of 
Ohio are once more gathered together to pay their annual vow. 
We are to mark another circle in the years of the oak. We are 
met to add another leaf to the perennial laurel. We are gath- 
ered to pay homage to an ancient and honorable party, [Ap- 
plause.] We are met as Paul, at the Three Taverns, to thank 
God and take courage. [Applause.] We have not finished the 
course, but we have " fought a good fight ;" " we have kept the 
faith." [Renewed applause.] Though yet in the wilderness, 
the true Democracy, like the children of Israel, find water in the 
rocks and manna on the ground. [Applause.] In its exalted 
mission to lift up the lowly. Democracy in defeat is a conqueror. 
[Applause.] Socrates, the sublime, bare-footed Democrat, pro- 
claimed the doctrine that the king was no greater than his sub- 



40 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 



ject, and Athens gave him the hemlock, but the doctrine lived. 
[Applause.] When Lord Russell, a modern Democrat, was 
hauled through the streets of London as an intimidating specta- 
cle to his place of execution in an open coach, the multitude, we 
are told, imagined they saw Liberty and Virtue seated by his 
side. When Sir Harry Vane, another Democrat, was dragged 
to Tower Hill to be beheaded, a keen-eyed Englishman said : 
"You never sat on so glorious a seat." The Democracy of 
Ohio are, or should be, at least, equal to the earlier martyrs. 

Now, in the hour of pride and hope, the Democracy of Ohio 
should abate no effort, should omit no vigilance to make our 
great cause triumphant — not in defeat, but in victory. [Ap- 
plause.] Gentlemen, the election upon which we are entering is 
a State election — a local election for local officers. It would ill 
become me even to suggest to the Convention what its action 
should be upon any subject springing up before it. Current 
events invite its attention to several important topics. Whether 
or not, as the humanities are non-partisan, the management of 
the charitable institutions of the State should be free from parti- 
san changes or appointment ; whether or not the legislative ses- 
sions of the General Assembly should be permanently shortened ; 
whether or not the late Republican Legislature was well behaved ; 
whether or not Ohio should vote in November with the other 
States, that voters may not be lead into temptation ; whether or 
not taxation should be lower and more equitably distributed ; 
whether or not convict labor should be allowed to impoverish 
honest labor [prolonged applause], making the criminal during 
his punishment, as before, the destroyer of honest men [renewed 
applause] ; whether or not the merit system is better than the 
spoils system in the Civil Service of the country ; whether or 
not the intimidation of voters by capitalists and employers of 
men is hostile to the spirit of free institutions [loud applause] 
and a peril to the Republic ; whether or not the farmers of Ohio 
have an equal chance in fact and in law — these questions, or to 
some of these, and some others pertinent to this State election, 
the Convention, I doubt not, will address itself with wisdom and 
patriotism [applause]. 

Gentlemen, I thank you for your courtesy, and I will show 
my gratitude by detaining you no longer from the business of 
the Convention [renewed applause]. 

Official Vote of Ohio, October, i88i, for Governor. 

Foster, rep 312,735 

Bookwalter, dem 288,426 

Democratic minority 24,309 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 41 

SPOFFORD. 
Nothing has been heard from Spofford since his laconic com- 
munication of May 1 6, 1874, which may be found, in full, in the 
Chronicles of the Class of 1866 (second series), page 31. 



TWICHELL. 
Dear Classmates: 

My parable (see Chronicles, '74) continues thus : Ten years 
of continuous work in Burdett, N. Y., made it necessary to stop 
the machinery in order to make needed repairs. We moved to 
Auburn, N. Y., in June, 1880, and we probably shall remain here 
a few months longer. The latch string is out, at all times, for 
any of yovt; provided you can endure the noise made by two of 
the wildest of boys. At present am in good health and hope for 
good things in the future. 

Yours in the bonds of '66, 

TwiCHELL, 
Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 8th, '81. 



VALENTINE. 

"When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should 
live till I were married." — Much Ado About NotJiing. 

Less than a year a Benedick, overrun with liberal and lucra- 
tive clients, what could be more appropriate than the Words- 
worth quotation with which Valentine closes his record : 

" A man, he seems, of cheerful yesterdays 
And confident to-morrows." 



VROOMAN. 

From the forthcoming record of non-graduates in preparation 

by Prof. Montague, we learn that, after leaving Amherst in the 

fall of 1863, Vrooman entered the Freewill Baptist ministry and 

became, subsequently, professor of ancient languages in the 



42 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

Michigan State Normal School, and was also editor in 1866 of 
the "Western Odd Fellow," and in 1873-77 of "The School." 
In 1869 Vrooman received the degree of A. M. honorary from 
Hillsdale (Mich.) College. 



WEBB. 



Writing from Beverly, Mass., under date of November 9, 
1 88 1, Webb says: 

I have been settled at Great Falls, N. H., since the last 
" Chronicles," till August i, 1881. I then resigned on account 
of a trouble with my throat. I hope to resume my work in a 
few months. I have lost two children by diphtheria, Willie Boy- 
den, and Ellen Augusta Webb — both dying the same day, March 
6, 1879. I have now one child, Louisa Lincoln Webb, born Oct. 
21, 1878, 



WESTON (ist). 

I was ordained at North Bennington, Vt., Oct. 13th, 1869; 
called from there to Sharon, Mass., and was installed pastor of 
the Congregational Church, Sept. 2d, 1874. An attack of lung 
fever followed by inflammatoiy rheumatism last winter and 
spring left a serious difficulty in the right lung, and I was com- 
pelled to give up the active duties of the ministry. My profes- 
sional cares (and emoluments) ceased Aug. ist; but by vote of 
the church, I retain the nominal relation of pastor. Am encour- 
aged to believe that with proper care my health may be so far 
restored that I can eventually resume my chosen work. 

My heartfelt wishes for the prosperity of all members of '66, 
and especially do I extend the hand of sympathy to any who, 
like myself, have been called to suffer. 

H. C. Weston. 
Sharon, Nov. 2d, 1881. 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 43 

WESTON (2d). 

Marietta, Ohio, Oct. 8, i88i. 
I claim but little space in the new Chronicles of '66. Still an 
employee of the government on river improvement ; still a bach- 
elor, it may be inferred that my paths have been those of peace. 
They continue to lead along the Ohio river and tributaries. 
After several years of miscellaneous duty along shore there fol- 
lowed two seasons of engineering work in quiet West Virginia 
and two more in this not unquiet town of Marietta. Between 
jobs I look around the country and in the spring of 1878 1 joined 
the procession and spent a few months in Europe. 

That is about all of my story that is of interest or needs to 
be recorded. Yours very truly, 

Weston (2d). 

Among the good things of that reunion dinner at the Am- 
herst House, June 29th, was this : 

Marietta, Ohio, June 19, 1881. 

With a little effort I think I could forward three vulgar dol- 
lars, and I would very much like a reserved seat to reunite and 
dine with 'Sixty-six, but it is not among the possibilities that I 
will be able to do so. 

It is a matter of congratulation that so many of us have suc- 
cessfully solved the fifteen puzzle, and I hope you will have a 
pleasant celebration of it. 

I once wondered if anything more was going to be needed 
to civilize and perfect the world after '66 had got done with it ! 
Now that we have had the field for fifteen years, perhaps the 
question is not so difficult of solution as it once seemed to be. 
My faith was great and thus far I have been improvident enough 
to provide no recruits to carry on the conflict if we don't close it 
up Greater minds have no doubt had greater wisdom, for, 
after looking over the field a little, I conclude that 'Sixty-six is 
not going to get a perfect polish on the globe, and that the old 
college can safely go on letting loose its yearly class upon the 
world. They may regret that they were not born earlier, but 
notwithstanding all our efforts there is likely to be some promis- 
ing territory left for them to grab and cultivate. 

However, this is but one opinion based on observations from 
a single station. If the class gets a cheerful dinner and then 
decides that we have actually got the " bulge " on the planet, 
please expect a cheer from your ob't servant, 

Weston (2d). 



44 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF 66. 

WHEELER. 
Since Wheeler's last report from the paternal fireside at South 
Butler, N. Y.,in 1874, he has followed the course of empire west- 
ward and now practices law at Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska. 



WHITAKER. 

Mercantile Library Rooms, 
San Francisco, June 18, i88i. 
I reply to your circular of May 30th, in which you are kind 
enough to harrow my social soul with the information that the 
15th anniversary of our graduation will be celebrated by a feast 
at the Amherst House on the eve of June 29th. You can, per- 
haps, picture my state of disappointment at the receipt of this 
intelligence, after being firmly satisfied (" in my own mind '') 
that my suggestion of San Francisco's renowned "Palace" 
would be only too readily accepted by my appreciative class- 
mates, and that a reunion of '66, by the "Gates of the Golden 
City of the West," would prove an event memorable for genera- 
tions to come. My conceit was promptly reduced by your circu- 
lar, however. I bow to the will of the majority, though quite 
vividly mindful of some portion of our college instruction leading 
us to believe that majorities are always wrong. 

One point in your circular, however, is of such personal inter- 
est to myself, and so nearly reflects upon my acknowledged repu- 
tation for peace and gentleness, that I must remonstrate. You 
would brand me before our classmates as a " serious objector." 
To this calumny, in spiteuof my denial of the charge, I do object. 
Though members of '66, through our lengthy separation, may 
have become oblivious to my gentle traits, fortunately I am now 
but too well established among a new constituency, whose cling- 
ing trust would not be disturbed should this libellous tract reach 
them — which it will not. But, verb, sap., I rely upon you to 
take advantage of the coming occasion to appeal to the assem- 
bled and doubtless representative members of our class, to refute 
the attempt at calumny of an absent member, and to denounce 
the calumniator. I am an " orfan," or, if that hath no power to 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 45 

contract the tendons of their callous hearts, I am worse — I am 
the sire of twins. To endorse this plea, if necessary, I call 
upon my old friend Walley, whose domestic reputation is beyond 
question, and who " knows well, how it is himself." With him 
I rest my case. 

Revejions d nos moutons — I am rejoiced to know that the 
class of '66 is at last going to have a bona fide feast and reunion. 
As a class, we have been peculiarly unfortunate or peculiarly 
foolish about these matters, never, I believe, cordially uniting in 
any memorial occasion, or social jollification, without some split 
or schism. Our class organization was ''a house divided against 
itself " for a great portion of our course, while the class-day sup- 
per — the most tender and sacred occasion of college career — 
went by default, a sacrifice to petty, party strife. 

The effect of the meeting this year will be, I doubt not, to 
wipe out all the party spirit of the past, and to bring about a 
complete and general reconciliation, resurrect the old class feel- 
ings and sentiments, and revive in the heart of every classmate 
some of the old pride which clothed us in college days. 

I regret, I need not add, that Amherst is so far from this port, 
else I might be one of your number assembled. I shall be with 
you in spirit. When the moment arrives and the edict, "Nunc 
est bibendum," goes forth, consider me present, for at such times 
do spirits move, rise up and go out to seek their mates. 

As you are probably aware our class has three representa- 
tives on the Pacific coast, Paine, Blake, and myself. I know of 
no more, but hope others will join us. Paine is far in the south- 
cm part of the State. That leaves Blake and myself in this city. 
We can hardly "flock together '' with any degree of satisfac- 
tion. Two is not enough. Send us some recruits and we will 
inaugurate a reunion of our own. 

I shall await with interest some account of your assembling, 
those present and their proceedings. 

Trusting that our 20th gathering may bring us together (my- 
self included), I can only say : Long live Amherst College and 
the Class of 'Sixty-six. Very truly yours, 

Alfred E. Whitaker. 



46 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

WOOD. 

Although a personal note, the secretary believes no confidence 
is violated in publishing entire the following characteristic letter 
from Wood : 

I must apologize for my delay in sending my return to your 
circular of September lo last, not on the ground of pressure of 
business, nor any diversion, but because of a great sorrow. I 
have lost both my little ones ; the last one, a most delightful lit- 
tle girl, being very sick when your letter came, and passing away 
a few days after. We were left in desolation, and I had no 
heart to write for the Chronicles, or any other matter requiring 
attention. Beyond the brief joy taken in our little boy and girl, 
and the enduring pain upon losing them, my experience since 
graduating has been that of the ordinary country lawyer, serene, 
patient, and hopeful. My fees have been moderate in size, mod- 
erate in number, but immense in expectation. I am satisfied as 
to the law that " there's millions in it," but it takes a rare chap 
to realize even a respectable fraction thereof. But the greatest 
success in life is contentment. Ambition is often disappointed 
— contentment, never ; and if I can attain to the latter and main- 
tain it unruffled through every vicissitude, other ends may be 
permitted to shape themselves as they may. 

Yours very truly, 
Allentown, Pa., Winslow Wood. 

Nov. 2, 1 88 1. 



WOODBURY. 

640 E. Madison Avenue, 
Cleveland, O., Oct. 2, 1881. 
I have just been reading the second series of our Chronicles 
kindly sent me by Bridgman. I cannot help but think, as I lay 
the little pamphlet down, that our choice of secretary has been 
a most happy one. Who else would show such pertinacity in 
tracing the wandering boys (" where is my wandering boy to- 
night?") of 1866 save him who even in the old Amherst days 
delighted in nothing better than a ''still hunt" after the true 
family home of those many reduplicated aorists .^schylus used 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 47 

to exercise such malignity in creating and Kuhne such conveni- 
ent carelessness in omitting to tabulate? Long may he con- 
tinue to catch, cook, and serve us hot and spitted for each other's 
gastronomic delight. I suppose his modesty may compel him 
to edit out this part of my letter,* but, I appeal to you all, he has 
no right under penalty of being shown " How To Travel '' out 
of his position, thus to trifle with the discretion it gives him. If 
he does, I'll print something good, little, rosy-red " Dick " Mather 
told me about him the other da}^ Dick married his wife (Mrs. 
Mather No. 2) here the other day. I wonder where all the rest 
of them are — " Monty " and " Tietaps " and Crowell. Fortem- 
que Gyan foftemqite Cleanthum? 

Crowell, by the way, gave me my wife (the only really good 
thing save the suggestion of the translation "fresh-men" for 
Cicero's novi homines, he ever did give me), although not inten- 
tionally. It was in this funny way : He had — still has, for aught 
I know — a maiden sister, principal or head teacher, or something 
of the sort, in the seminary for young ladies at Fox Lake, Wis. 
He sent her a Williams Quarterly (you, boys, don't need remind- 
ing that I left Amherst for Williams at the end of Junior year to 
let two years of plenty fill up the void inflicted by two years of 
[ah me, self-inflicted — O me miserum, eroe eleleu] famine) con- 
taining a few verses I had written on the Assassination of Lin- 
coln. She happened to get the lines just before going to meet her 
rhetorical class. She hadn't looked up any exercise for reading. 
She must have something right away. She glanced them over. 
They would do, " better than nothing," she thought, " and they 
can be plastered over a little." In her anxiety to atone for the 
hurried selection she had made, she must have calcimined it 
pretty thoroughly, for a young lady in the class sought out the 
acquaintance of the "young author'' (I believe that was Miss 
Crowell's expression) believing (and very rightly) that he must 
have exceedingly proper and salutary traits of mind thus to be 
endorsed by a spinster in charge of a female seminary. 
"All this was in the olden Time, long ago." 

* No you don't, modesty never did serious harm to any mem- 
ber of '66. H. L. B. 



4:8 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

Now we have a pleasant household and four children : Ber- 
tha, aged 1 1 ; Hope, aged 4 ; Vincent, aged 2, and Monteith, a 
fraction of i. 

Since writing you before, I have run a daily paper one year 
(Lieut.-Gov. Bross, of Chicago, told me, while riding to Garfield's 
grave last Monday, " no man's life is complete without that ex- 
perience ") and organized an oil company. The Standard has 
bought us out and I am on the retired list. What I shall do 
next I don't know. 

What do you say to the wheat-growing business in Dakota ? 

C. J. W. 

Along with the foregoing came this, which is too good and 
characteristic to lose : 

Cut and maul this screed all you want to. It's a rainy Sun- 
day and that's the cause of it. Not being a missionary, I don't 
suppose I have any right to take up so much room, but my 
memories got to running av/ay with me, and you don't know how 
much I choke off what I want to babble about in this delightful 
half-public, half-private way offered so attractively in the Chron- 
icles. My excuse must be Pascal's: '' I haven't time to make it 
shorter." 

How the individualities of all the boys come up before me — 
phlegmatic Phelps, reckless Morrill, King who knew of wassail, 
Plin Bartlett, and Parkhurst, 

" His brow sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." 

Ah well, the days of ;;?_y pilgrimage (at least) are few and evil, 
and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of m.y 
fathers. Ah, my boy, 

When all the world is old. 

And all the trees are brown, 
And all the sport is stale. 

And all the wheels run down, 

And we creep home and take our place there, 

The spent and maimed among, 
God grant we find one face there. 

We loved when we were young. 

Your loving classmate, 

Chas. J. Woodbury. 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 49 

ZIEGLER. 
Green Castle, Pa., June 22d, 1881. 

I have seen a good deal of the world and a good many peo- 
ple, but Amherst is the greenest spot in my memory, and the 
friendships of '65 and '66 are the most precious I have ever made. 
I am a dyed-in-the-zuool believer in New England in general, attd 
in old Amherst and '66 in particular. I shall now look forward 
the more impatiently to our 5th reunion, hoping there is still a 
" chance left " for me. 

Must I make a report of myself? Alas, I have little to add 
to what the class already know of me. I am still at Green Cas- 
tle, teaching, not wholly unsuccessful, loving my work and 
thinking it — next to one — the grandest calling under the sun — in 
all, slowly educating myself m things I ought to liave known from 
the beginning, certainly long before I ventured to show myself 
at the door of the Freshman class at Amherst. I enjoy excel- 
lent health, and ought to, as I take a great deal of exercise and 
teach only eight months out of the twelve. I am still a bache- 
lor — not the less happy, I may say, on that account^ — if you mar- 
ried fellows will not challenge that as heresy too rank for utter- 
ance. However, my opinions on that subject are not zrojt-clad. 

Please assure all my classmates of my deepest interest in 
them; let them contrive from time to time ioget into the news- 
papers that I may keep on following them up with rejoicing. 
Say to them that, with them, I do not forget " Our Dead." Our 
class, it is true, grows smaller; but we who are left will only have 
to redouble our efforts to keep steadily advancing the work to 
which our common advantages at Amherst have forever pledged 
us. I remain as always, faithfully yours, 

G. Fred. Ziegler. 



THE ROLL. 

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER. 
^'' All present or accounted for. '^ 



THE LIVING. 

t Did not graduate. % A.M. in course, 1869, 

P. O. Address. 
EDWARD N. BAKER t .... Pittsfield, Mass. 
Married, December 13th, 1865, Abbie M. Puffer; Catharine 
W. Baker, born March 24th, 1867; Edward A., born November 
3d, 1868 (died November 24th, 1873); Walter N., born August 
27th, 1870; Ernest M., born June 15th, 1872 (died February 2d, 
1873); Frederick W., born January 24th, 1874. 

Rev. ALBERT H. BALL t . . . New Haven, Conn. 
Married, August 30th, 1870, Helen M. Savage; Allen Perley 
Ball, born December 17th, 1871 ; Walter L. Ball, Oct. 1875 ; 
Margie E. Ball, April, 1878. 

Prof. E. HUBBARD BARLOW X . West Lebanon, N. H. 
Married, November 25th, 1867, Abby J. Smith; Margaret 
Barlow, born June 23d, 1873; Harrington, born Oct. 14, 1878. 

PLINY BARTLETT.t Land D'tA.T.&S.F.R.R.,Topeka,Kan. 

Married, September 15th, 1870, Julia K. Varney; Nellie Bart- 
lett, born January 15th, 1873. 

WILLIAM BELCHER . . . New London, Conn. 
Married, October 6th, 1871, Annie Pimer; Gregory Belcher, 
born July 25th, 1872; Louise Belcher, born January 2d, 1874 
(died February i8th, 1874). 

Rev. N. H. BELL Nunda, N. Y. 

Married August nth, 1868, Emma H. Curtiss; Herbert Bell, 
born August 4th, 1869 (died January 15th, 1870); Gertrude, born 
April 4th, 1871; Frank, born September 29th, 1872 (died Janu- 
ary loth, 1873); Maud, born May 30th, 1874; Florence, born 
May 23d, 1878. 

EDWARD N, BISHOP + Windsor, Vt. 



62 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

P. O. Address. 
MAURICE B. BLAKE J (417 Kearny st.), San Francisco, Cal. 
Married, October 17th, 1870, Mattie li. Eastman; Mary East- 
man Blake, born March 17, 1877 ; Theodore, born November 
21, 1881. 

Rev. J. H. BLISS J Clinton, Conn. 

Married, November lOth, 1859, Florence A. Russell; Edward 
Henry Bliss, born October 8th, 1870; Mary Florence, born 
April i6th, 1872; Frank Russell, born July 15th, 1873; Annie 
Taylor, born October 31st, 1874; Gracie Williams, born May 7, 
1876 (died February nth, 1877); Alice Emery, born January 29th, 
1878; Eveline Hull, born December 2d, 1879. 

JOSEPH BOARD ' . . . Chester, Orange Co., N. Y. 

Married, June 3d, 1868, Josephine B. Curry (died April 6th, 

1869); married, November 3d, 1871, Hannah A. Curry; J. Orton 

Board, born September 4th, 1872; Helen, born (died ); 

Anna Tibbetts, born ; Ben Curry, born . 

WILLIAM R. BOND t Chicago, 111. 

Rev. H. C. BRADBURY . . Lincoln Center, Kansas. 
Married, October 25th, 1875, Elma A. Boblet; Augusta U. 

Bradbury, born July 28th, 1876; Eunice, born September ist, 

1878; Mary I., born December ist, 1880. 

HERBERT L. BRIDGMANJ (604 C«r//^«a7A) Biooklyn.N.Y. 
Married, October 7th, 1868, Melia Newhall ; Robert Bridg- 
man, born November 24th, 1874. 

S. WALLEY BROWN t (1130 Broadway), New York City. 

Married, March 30th, 1875, Carrie R. Brigham; William 

Brigham and Kate Ingersoll Brown, born February 14th, 1876 

(Kate Ingersoll died August 8th, 1876); Bessie Frances, born 

August 29th, 1877. 

CHARLES H. CHANDLER J {Herald Office), Boston, Mass. 
Married, July 25th, 1866, Stella Shepard Bardwell; Lillian 
Anna Laura Chandler, born June i6th, 1867. 

Rev. R. M. COLE .... Erzroom, Turkey. 

Married, July ist, 1868, Lizzie Cobleigh. Five children; two 
living. 

N. S. COOLEY Longmeadow, Mass. 

Rev. p. D. COWAN .... Wellesley, Mass. 

Married, October 26th, 1870, Margaret E. Rhea ; Margaret 
McClung Cowan, born February 3d, 1876 (died November 8th, 
1879). 

1 Graduated 1867. 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 53 

P, O. Address. 

Rev. S. I. CURTISS ' {Chicago Theo. Sem.), Chicago, 111. 
Married, May loth, 1870, Mrs. Laura W. Sessions {nee 
Walker); Paul Curtiss, born October nth, 1871 (died December 
loth, 1871); Pauline, born December 5th, 1872; John Christlieb, 
born September 29th, 1874; Victor Delitzsch, born June 14th, 
1876 (died August 20th, 1876). 

Rev. J. E. DAME .... Swampscott, Mass. 

Married, February 14th, 1874, L, Lillian Montgomery. 
R. E. DAVISON t Spring-field, Mass. 

Married, May 29th, 1869, Eliza H. Clark (died June 2d, 
1869). 

Prof. SAMUEL J. DIKE (63 Lexington avenue), N. Y. City. 

JOSEPH W. FAIRBANKS t . . . Easthampton, Mass. 

Married, December 31st, 1868, Ellen M. Cutting; Gertrude 

Maria Fairbanks, born October 28th, 1869 ; Helen Louise, born 

August 31st, 1871. 

Rev. R. D. FISH t Boston, Mass. 

Married, February iSth, 1874, Mrs. Malvina Knowlton. 

Rev. W. p. FISHER Brunswick, Me. 

Rev. E. W. GAYLORD . . . Georgetown, Md. 

Married, July 27th, 1871, Annie E. Foulk ; Mary EUinor Gay- 
lord, born December 2d, 1872; Cordelia Dickinson, born De- 
cember 2d, 1872 ; Edward Dickinson, born September i8th, 
1S77 ; Ella Cropper, born May 17th, 1881. 

Rev. GEORGE HARRIS .... Providence, R. I. 

Married, December 24th, 1873, Jane Anthony Viall. Son died, 
THOMAS HORTON .... Sacramento, Cal. 
GEO. W. HUFFORDt .... Indianapolis, Ind. 
Married, June 25th, 1868, Lois P. Grosvenor. Four children. 
Prof. A. S. KIMBALL % . . . Worcester, Mass. 
Married, December ist, 1866, Eunice M. Beede (died July 
24th, 1868); married, Ellie M. Everett, July 14th, 1871; Albert 
Beede Kimball, born December 29th, 1867; Everett, born Octo- 
ber 6th, 1873; Eleanor, born 1879. 

MORRIS K. KING f . (274 East Main st.). Norfolk. Va. 
Married, June 6th, 1870, Julia Goddard; Georgiana King, 
born August 5th, 1871 ; Ellen Morris, born May 5th, 1876; Mar- 
garet Goddard, born August i8th, 1878; John Steins, born March 
31st, 1880. 

' Graduated 1867. 



54 CHROKICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

P. O. Address. 
A. C. LIPPITT, jR.f .... New London, Conn. 
JOHN W. MARSH* . . (13$ Oar A sfreei), Chicago, IW. 
Married, October 9th, 1872, Annie Silsby Porter; John Porter 
Marsh, born February 24th, 1874. 

HENRY H. MERRI AM t . . • Worcester, Mass. 

Married, September ist, 1863, Marielle E. Harlon. 
JOHN A. MOODY . . (C/// C/erk's Office), Chicago. 
Married, July, 1868, Hattie G. Bowers ; Hattie Cleaveland 
Moody, born September 7th, 1869 ; Margaret Ethel, born April, 
1872. 
JULIUS A. MORRILL f . . . . Bellows Falls, Vt. 
Married, November ist, 1866, Sarah Chamberlain Bell; Ger- 
trude Lee Morrill, born September i8th, 1867 ; Calvin, born 
September 14th, 1869 (died June 22d, 1871); Henry Bell, born 
November 19th, 1871; Julie Foote Chamberlain, born June 3d, 
1873; George Pillsbury, born October 27th, 1874; James Perci- 
val, born June 6th, 1876. 
Rev. lewis F. MORRIS .... Bethany, Conn. 
Married, July 18, 1871, Helen Vedder; Louis Vedder Morris, 
born September loth, 1872 ; Arthur Plant, born February i8th, 
1874. 
VINCENT MOSES t . . . West Medway, Mass. 
Married, August 24th, 1874, Evelyn Alice Hazeltine (died Au- 
gust 6th, 1875). 

Prof. H. H. NEILL .... Amherst, Mass. 

Married, December 22d, 1875, Abby W. Redfield, 

Rev. S. D. NOYES Florida, N. Y. 

Married, October i6th, 1867, S. Louise Beemer; Maud Louise 
Noyes, born May 26th, 1871 ; Horace Button, born January 
15th, 1873. Two children born later. 

CHARLES R. PAINE ... San Bernardino, CaL 
Married, June, 1868, Mary E. Craig; Winifred Mabel Paine, 
born March 27th, i86g ; Grace Gertrude, born November 22d, 
1871 ; Mary Alice, born September i6th, 1873; Lucy Elizabeth, 
born June 2d, 1875 ; Charlotte, born August 27th, 1879 ; Wil- 
liam Craig, born March 24th, 1881. 

Rev. C. H. PARKHURST | (5 East ^oth st.), New York City. 
Married, November 23d, 1870, Nellie R. Bodman. 

' Graduated i868. 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 55 

P. O. Address. 
Dr. henry T. PEIRCE (247 East ii6th street), N. Y. City. 

Married, October I2th, 1876, Mary Saylor ; Maida Peirce, 
bom August 27th, 1881. 

HENRY V. PELTON . . . Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Married, September 29th, 1875, Kate E. Williams ; Ernest W. 
Pelton, bom August 7th, 1880. 

JOHN W. PHELPS t . . . . Springfield, Mass. 
Married Helen E. Clark ; Willis Phelps, bom 1866. 

Rev. J. C. PLUMB t Hannibal, Mo. 

Married, August I2th, 1868, Elizabeth F. Blackmer; Caroline 
Hale Plumb, born July gth, 1871 ; Elizabeth Hayes, born Octo- 
ber 17th, 1873; Carlton Harvey, born July 24th, 1875; Joseph 
Jewett, bom December 24th, 1877 (died May 19th, 1879). 

Rev. S. B. RAND Amherst, Mass. 

Married, September 7th, 1869, Mary A. Hall; Sarah Cornelia 
Rand, born December 4th, 1870; Fred. Hall, born July 22d, 
1872 (died December 31st, 1874); Mary Alice, born December 
17th, 1874; Laura Bradfield, born September 30th, 1876; Wil- 
berforce Judson, born February 20th, 1881. 

ALVIN B. RICEt Panama, N. Y. 

Married, February 23d, 1868, Helen M. Davis. 

CHARLES B. ROE Oxford, N. Y. 

Rev. F. D. SARGENT . . . Brookline, N. H. 

Married, October igth, 1869, Emma S. Taylor ; Bertha Louise 
Sargent, bom March 19th, 1873; Florence Gertrude, bom July 
8th, 1878. 

HENRY F. SEIPLE Landisville, Pa. 

Married, April i6th, 1868; Arthur William Houston Seiple, 
bom June 13th, 1869. 

HERBERT M. SMALL . . . Baldwinsville, Mass. 

Married, Febmary ist, 1869, Sarah E. Morton; J. Morton 
Small, born May 20th, 1870 (died July 13th, 1871) ; William Mor- 
ton, born May 5th, 1875 ; S. Griswold, born February 23d, 1878; 
Herbert M.,born June ist, 1881. 

SAMUEL C. SMITH . {Eng. High School), Boston, Mass. 
Married, July 13th. 1871, Josie H. Riddle (died ); mar- 
ried, Augus"t 19th, 1874, Clara S. Nye; Curtis Nye Smith, born 
January 14th, 1876; Franklin Elmer, born April 4th, 1877. 



56 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 

P. O. Address. 

Rev. THOMAS S. SMITH . Tillapally, Jaffna, Ceylon. 
Married, March 2ist, 1871, Emily M. Fairbank; daughters 
born, 1872, 1875, 1878. 

ASA A. SPEAR ... (22 Pine street), N. Y. City. 
Married, November 3d, 1870, Caroline A. Crocker; Lillian 
Caroline Spear, born January 31st, 1872. 

JAMES E. SPEAR . . {Enquirer Office), Cincinnati, O. 

L. W. SPOFFORD .... Georgetown, Mass. 

GEORGE G. TRASKt . . (187 Broadway), N. Y. City. 

Married October 13th, 1875, Mary Chuman ; Henry Keith 

Trask, born July ist, 1879. 

Rev. E. W. TWICHELL .... Auburn, N. Y. 
Married, October 7th, 1869, S. Frances Garlock; Harry Lem- 
uel Twichell, born April 30th, 1873. 

JOSEPH P. VROOMAN t . . . Ypsilanti, Mich. 

SAMUEL H. VALENTINE t (64 Wall street), N. Y. City. 
Married, Febiaiary 2d, 1881, Lillie Williams Porter. 

Rev. S. W. WEBB Beverly, Mass. 

Married, November 7th, 1871, Martha S. Boyden; William 
Boyden Webb, born January 12th, 1874 (died March 6th, 1879); 
Ellen Augusta, born (died March 6th, 1879); Louisa Lin- 
coln, born October 2ist, 1878. 

Rev. HENRY C. WESTON . . . Sharon, Mass. 

Married, August iSth, 1870, Clara A. Loring ; Mary Loring 
Weston, born April 15th, 1872 ; David Brainard, born February 
23d, 1874; Sidney A., born December 9th, 1877. 

WILLIAM WESTON . {Z\W. Third st.),C\x\z\xmdA:\,0. 

HILAND H. WHEELER, Jr.' . . . Lincoln, Neb. 

ALFRED E. WHITAKER . . San Francisco, Cal. 

Married, September 7th, 1877, Laura Edith Gunning; Alfred 

Horace and Alfreda Hortense Whitaker, born May 12th, 1880. 

J. WINSLOW WOOD Allentown, Pa. 

Married, March 19th, 1878, Jennie Albright; Guy Wood, born 
January 8th, 1879 (died September 1 8th, 1879); Lizzie H., born 
June 15th, 1880 (died September 23d, 1881). 

' Graduated 1868. 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 57 



P. O. Address. 

CHARLES J. WOODBURY t (640 E. Madison ave.), Cleve- 
land, O. 
Married, February 17th, i86g, Lulu Hall; Winifred Wood- 
bury, born October 30th, 1870; Francis Hall, born June 30th, 

1873 (died ); Hope, born 1877; Vincent, born 1879; Mon- 

teith, born 1881. 

G. FREDERICK ZIEGLER . . Greencastle, Pa. 



THE DEAD. 

Age. 
Allen, LabAN WheATON, Hanover, Mass., August 23d, 1875. 31 

Brayton, George, Utica, N. Y., April gth, 1873. 29 

French, John, Kansas City, Mo., August 24tli, 1879. 34 

Married, September 26th, 1878, Isa Baldwin, Chicago, 111. 
Gage, Nehemiah Hutchinson, Pelham, N. H., July, 1866. 25 

HowER, George, Weaversville, Pa., March 7th, 1872. 32 

Phipps, Charles Richard, Denver, Col., March 17th, 1877. 36 

Married, August 7th, 1867, Maria A. Green; Isabel Phipps, 
born June 29th, 1869; Georgie, born May 6th, 1871. 

Roberts, Henry, Middletown, N. Y., , 1S73. 28 

Skinner, Harry Morgan, Hudson, N. Y., September, 1863. 19 

Williams, Hinckley Wright, Goshen, Mass., August, 1864. 19 

Graduates . . . . 51 

Non-Graduates ... 27 

Total .... 78 



THE CHILDREN. 

Living . . . . . 104 

Dead .... , . 24 

Total . . . .128 



58 



CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF '66. 



PROFESSIONS. 



MINISTRY. 



Allen, 

Ball, 

Bell, 

Bliss, 

Bradbury, 

Brayton, 

Cole, 

Cowan, 

CURTISS, 



Dame, 

Fish, 

Fisher, 

Gaylord, 

Harris, 

Morris, 

Neill, 

NOYES, 

Parkhurst, 
Plumb, 
Rand, 
Sargent, 
Smith, 2d, 
twichell, 
Webb, 
Weston, ist. 



Theological Course. 

Andover Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Madison Univ. Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Bangor Tlieol. Sem., 1868. 
Hartford Theol. Inst., 1869. 
Union Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Princeton, 1869. 
Bangor Theol. Sem., 1868. 

Union Theol. Sem., 1869. 

(A. M. East Tenn. Univ., 1870.) 
Union Theol. Sem., 1870. 

(Ph. D. Leipzig, Germany, 1876; Lie. Th. Berlin, 
1878; D. D. Iowa Coll., 1878, Amherst, 1881; 
elected Prof. Biblical Lit., as above, 1878; now- 
Old Testament Lit. and Interpretation.) 

New Hampton, N. H., Theol. Inst., 1868. 

Union Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Lane Theol. Sem., 1872. 
Andover Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Studied at Hartford Theol. Inst. 
Princeton, 1869. 

(D.D. Amherst, 1880.) 
Andover Theol., 1868. 
Rochester Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Andover Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Andover Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Auburn Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Chicago Theol. Sem., 1869. 
Andover Theol. Sem., 1869. 



TEACHING. 

Barlow, Tilden Female Sem., West Lebanon, N. H. 

Dike, New York City. 



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69 



Fairbanks, 
French, 

HUFFORD, 

Kimball, 
Smith, ist, 
Vrooman, 

ZlEGLER, 



Williston Sem., Easthampton, Mass. 
(Ph. D. Amherst College, 1880.) 

High School, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Free Institute, Worcester, Mass. 
Eng. High School, Boston. 
Ypsilanti, Mich. 
Principal Boys' School, Greencastle, Pa. 





LAW. 




Blake, 






Seiple, 


Belcher, 






Spear, ist, 


LiPPITT, 






Valentine, 


Marsh, 






Wheeler, 


Roberts, 


(Graduated, Yale Coll., 1866.) 


Wood. 




MISCELLANEOUS, 




Baker, 


Manufacturer. 


MOSES, 


Civil Service. 


Bartlett, 


, " Lit'y Skirmisher. 


" Paine, 


Horticulturist. 


Bishop, 




Peirce, 


Physician. 


Board, 


Merchant. 


Pelton, 


Manufacturer, 


Bond, 


Book-keeper. 


Phelps, 


Railroads. 


Bridgman 


, Journalist. 


Phipps, 


Life Insurance. 


Brown, 


Real Estate. 


Rice, 


Physician. 


Chandlee 


:, Journalist. 


Roe, 


Farmer. 


COOLEY, 


Manufacturer. 


Small, 


Manufacturer. 


Davison, 


Jeweler. 


Spear, 2d 


, Journalist. 


HORTON, 




Spofford 


■, 


King, 


Railroads. 


Trask, 


Fire Insurance. 


Merriam, 


Merchant. 


Weston, 2d, Civil Engineer. 


Moody, 


Civil Service. 


WHlTAKER,Librarian. 


Morrill, 


Books. 


Woodbury, Manufacturer. 



NOT INCLUDED. 

Gage, d. 1866. Skinner, d, 1863. 

HowER, d. 1870. Williams, d. 1864. 



60 CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS GF '66, 

SUMMARY. 

Ministry 25 

Law 10 

Teaching 9 

Miscellaneous 3° 

Not otherwise included 4 

Total 78 



PUBLICATIONS. 

" The evil that men do lives after them, 
The good is oft interred with their bones." 

Bridgman. — Editor of "The Chronicles of the Class of 
'66," first series, 1869; second series, 1874; third series, 1881 ; 
associate editor of the Ninth General Catalogue of the Psi Up- 
silon Fraternity, 1879; publisher of "How to Travel," 1881; 
publisher of "A Pocket Guide to Europe " {in press). 

Cowan. — Editor Tennessee Presbyter, 1873-1875. 

CURTISS. — The Name Machabee,* Leipzig, 1876; Bickell's 
Outlines of Hebrew Grammar,t Leipzig, 1877; The Levitical 
Priests, Edinburgh, 1877; De Aaronitici Sacerdotii Origine,* 
Lipsial, 1878; Moses and Deuteronomy, Edinburgh, 1878; A 
Plea for a more thorough Study of the Semitic Languages in 
America, J Chicago, 1879; Ingersoll and Moses, Chicago, 1880; 
Delitzsch's Messianic Prophecies.t Edinburgh, 1880; The Date 
of our Gospels, Chicago, 1881; Delitzsch's Old Testament His- 
tory of Redemption,! Edinburgh, 1881. 

Neill. — Address commemorative of Elihu Root Walker, 
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Amherst 
College, 1 88 1. 

Valentine. — The American Admiralty, 2d ed., Banks Bros. 
1870, pp. 800. 

Vroom AN.— Editor Western Odd Fellow, 1866; The School, 
1873-1877. 

Weston ist.— Two Annual School Reports, 1879 and 1880. 



* Dissertations. f Translations. % Inaugural address. 



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